Apparently the White House Really Doesn’t Want You to Call It Trumpcare

Sure, the president supports the GOP Obamacare replacement, but he doesn’t want people to know it.

If there's one thing Donald Trump is most famous for, it's his absolute love of putting his name on garbage. Ugly towers. Garbage steaks. Gross vodka. Disgusting wine. Fake universities. Ties made in Asia. You name something, and there's a good chance there's an inferior Trump-branded version of that thing.

That's why this report from Politico about Trumpcare, the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, was so surprising.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer was pressed on the same issue.
“We’re less concerned with labels right now and more in terms of
action and results,” he said.

On Wednesday morning, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway was
also reluctant to commit to any particular nickname for the
legislation.

“I’ll call it Trumpcare if you want to, but I didn’t hear President
Trump say to any of us, ‘Hey I want my name on that,’” Conway told Fox
News. “We’re happy it is the American Health Care Act. This is serious
stuff. This isn’t about branding according to someone’s name.”

A White House spokesperson, however, was more emphatic. “It’s not
Trumpcare,” the spokesperson said Wednesday. “We will be calling it by
its official name,” the American Health Care Act.

Ugh, Kellyanne? "This isn't about branding according to someone's name"? Do you know who your boss is? I mean, Trump couldn't possibly have loved all of those steaks, and the vodka and wine? Trump doesn't even drink! But that didn't stop him from shoving his name on those things. And yet here we have Trumpcare, a bill that must be important to Trump as he spent so long calling for the repeal of Obamacare, and yet Trump doesn't want them calling Trumpcare "Trumpcare." That's so unlike him. In fact, it's almost as if he's doing this because if Trumpcare ends up leaving more people uninsured than Obamacare, or if Trumpcare ends up costing the people who are insured more than Obamacare did, he doesn't want the blame for being behind Trumpcare.

But here's the thing. Obamacare is working. If you've decided you don't like it and want to get rid of it, fine, but you're going to own that. So I don't really care what the White House says about the branding of Trumpcare. It's going to be called Trumpcare.